Kenji Enomoto

I am a Research Scientist at Adobe Research. I received my PhD from Osaka University, where I was advised by Professor Yasuyuki Matsushita. My research interests span computer vision (physics-based vision), computer graphics and machine learning.

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Research

Polarized Color Screen Matting

Kenji Enomoto, Scott Cohen, Brian Price, TJ Rhodes

CVPR, 2025 (Highlight)

Paper Results

PolarMatte: Fully Computational Ground-Truth-Quality Alpha Matte Extraction for Images and Video using Polarized Screen Matting

Kenji Enomoto, TJ Rhodes, Brian Price, Gavin Miller

CVPR, 2024

Paper Results

Discrete Search Photometric Stereo for Fast and Accurate Shape Estimation

Kenji Enomoto, Michael Waechter, Fumio Okura, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Yasuyuki Matsushita

TPAMI, 2023

Paper Author version

Photometric Stereo via Discrete Hypothesis-and-Test search

Kenji Enomoto, Michael Waechter, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Yasuyuki Matsushita

CVPR, 2020

Paper Code

Filmy Cloud Removal on Satellite Imagery with Multispectral Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets

Kenji Enomoto, Ken Sakurada, Weimin Wang, Hiroshi Fukui, Masashi Matsuoka, Ryosuke Nakamura, Nobuo Kawaguchi

CVPR Workshop (EARTHVISION), 2017

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Patents

Preparation systems for efficiently generating alpha mattes and modified digital videos utilizing polarized light

TJ Rhodes, Brian Price, Kenji Enomoto, Kevin Wampler

US Patent 12387410, 2025

Google Patents

Instant masks with polarized light

TJ Rhodes, Brian Price, Gavin Miller, Kenji Enomoto

US Patent 12266112, 2025

Google Patents

Education

Information Science and Technology, Osaka University PhD, Sep. 2022

Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University MS, Mar. 2019

Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagoya University BS, Mar. 2017

Work Experiences

Research Scientist, Adobe Research Oct. 2022 - Present

Internship, Adobe Research Feb. - Sep. 2022

Internship, Adobe Research Jun. - Sep. 2021

Internship, Preferred Networks, Inc. Aug. - Sep. 2018

Technical staff, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Jan. 2018 - Mar. 2019

Teaching assistant for the student experiment of the construction of web system, Nagoya University Oct. 2017 - Jan. 2018

Internship, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Aug. - Sep. 2017